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• Former Royals pitcher Octavio Dotel dies at age 51

Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images The former big league closer was killed in a roof collapse. Former Royals pitcher and 15-year MLB veteran Octavio Dotel has died at the age of 51 according to reporters Héctor Gomez and Mike Rodriguez. Dotel was among 160 people injured in a roof collapse at a nightclub in his native Dominican Republic on early Tuesday morning. He initially survived an...2025
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• Royals extend contract for J.J. Picollo and pick up 2026 option on Matt Quatraro

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Royals reward Picollo an Quatraro for last year’s turnaround. The Royals improved by 30 wins last year, making a surprise post-season run. Today, they ensured that the men who led that turnaround will stay in Kansas City for awhile. The team announced today they have signed General Manager J.J. Picollo to a contract extension through 2030 with a club opti...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2025

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images How would you grade the Royals’ off-season? David Lesky tries to project Royals hitters. In right field, Melendez and Renfroe is a bit less exciting, but Melendez has a career 105 OPS+ against righties while Renfroe is at 121 vs. lefites. Neither was that good against their desired platoon matchups last year, which is concerning and a big reason why they ne...2025
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• The best international signings in Royals history

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images Baseball is international. Today marks the beginning of a new international signing period, as teams will welcome fresh-faced young players - mostly from Latin America - into their organizations. The international market can be a crapshoot - teams are gambling on teenagers who are barely old enough to drive in the United States, hoping th...2025
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• Please welcome new writer Jared Perkins

Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A new year brings a new writer. A new year means some new writers here at Royals Review. Some of you may be familiar with Jared Perkins from his time writing at Royals Farm Report and other publications. He has a lot of experience writing about Royals prospects and he’ll continue to cover the farm system here. Here is more from Jared...2025
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• How high can the Royals payroll go?

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals takes the field prior to Game 4 of the Division Series presented by Booking.com between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday, October 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images $130 million? $140 million? Superstar quarterback Aaron Jets signed with the New Yor...2024
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for October 5, 2024

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images If the Royals can make it there, they can make it anywhere. David Lesky previews the ALDS against the Yankees. You wonder a little if the postseason struggles from Judge over the last couple of seasons weigh on him. He’s had his issues, going 1 for 20 in the 2017 ALDS, but he bounced back with a big ALCS. And he was good in the 2019 playo...2024
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• Weekful of injuries highlights Picollo’s next task - improve team depth

Executive Vice President and General Manager J.J. Picollo of the Kansas City Royals in the dugout before the game against the Oakland Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum. | Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images If general manager J.J. Picollo really wants to set himself apart from his predecessor, turning the team around is just the first step. The Royals have suffered a se...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 30, 2024

10 years ago today! | Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Can we just all pretend last night’s game was a bad dream? At The Star, Jaylon Thompson talked to the team about winning the division title: Now, after Wednesday’s series-ending loss, they’re one game behind and the divisional race has become an all-out sprint. “That’s our goal,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said of winning the AL Cen...2024
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• Reactions to the Royals’ 2024 draft class

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Royals add some talent. This week, the Royals selected 20 players to join the organization and could add more as they sign undrafted free agents. The 2024 draft class was headlined by Jac Caglianone, a slugging first baseman for the Florida Gators who will also pitch. In addition to the two-way Caglianone, the Royals selected 15 pitchers, two out...2024
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2019 draft class, five years later

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Could this be the best draft class in Royals history? Flags fly forever, but the post-championship hangover hit the Royals hard in 2018. Once the core of the championship team departed, what was left were over-the-hill veterans and not-ready-for-prime-time players. The 2018 Royals were dreadful, losing 104 games, but their reward for enduring that misery w...2024
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• Rangers series preview: The defending champs aren’t playing like it

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The Rangers have a championship hangover. The Rangers won their first title last year, and flags will fly forever. But the team is suffering a bit of a championship hangover. They head into this series six games under .500, with the sixth-worst record in baseball. Kansas City Royals (42-34) vs. Texas Rangers (34-40) at Globe Life Field, Arlington, T...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024

That was a fun moment between Butler and Gordon | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Thursdays are the new Friday! Ed note: Yes, I know, it’s not Friday. But when we get down to OT, this will make sense. Greg was gracious enough to switch when I realized the game today fit with the topic. For those of you who skip Friday Rumblings... shame on you. Or not. But this is the wild and bori...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 11, 2024

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Are some Royals hitters turning things around? Jaylon Thompson writes about Dan Altavilla’s return to the big leagues three years after his last appearance. “I was just sitting over at the hotel waiting to get the call to come over,” Altavilla said. “I was pretty anxious just to, you know, get in the car and drive over. But walking into the clubhouse bro...2024
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• Former Royals pitcher Octavio Dotel dies at age 51
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• Who is John Sherman?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Like the guy next door, except richer In the past, I’ve written stories critical of how the Royals organization has handled their downtown stadium negotiations. And while I don’t back away from the ham-handed way that process has been going, I did start to wonder if perhaps I have gotten the wrong idea about Royals owner John Sherman. After all, I’ve never m...2024
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• A timeline of what’s happened so far in the Royals new stadium push

Apr 26, 2023; Kansas City, MO, USA; A general overall aerial view of Kauffman Stadium (bottom) and Arrowhead Stadium at the Truman Sports Complex. | Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports It’s been a long and winding road Long discussed as a fun “what if” scenario in bars and around water coolers throughout the Kansas City metro area, the idea of a Kansas City Royals downtown stadium is slowly becomi...2024
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• The best former Royals player for each MLB team

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images What Royals were great with other teams? There is a lull in the baseball season, the perfect time to engage in frivolities and shenanigans. You may have played the internet baseball trivia game Immaculate Grid that asks you to find players that meet specified requirements, many times, “who played for these two teams?” I don’t know if that in...2023
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Of Hot Red Sox, Cologne, Clubhouse Fights, Dog Days
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"Picollo has been with the club since 2006, when he joined Dayton Moore as Director of Player Development."

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"I watched a 2013 team that had never won 15 of 20 games in the Dayton Moore era win 15 of 17."

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"When Dayton Moore took over in 2006, he sought for years for his ballhawk that would patrol centerfield at the K."

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"Longtime president of baseball operations Dayton Moore was dismissed in…"

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"Erik Neander, Dayton Moore and Baseball's Executive Title Inflation"

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"Glass loved this game, this team, and our city with all his heart,” GM Dayton Moore said in a statement."

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"Merrifield’s a favorite of Royals general manager Dayton Moore, though (per Feinsand) he admitted that the team must “be open-minded” in regard to any potential deal."

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"Royals general manager Dayton Moore would not confirm a USA Today report Wednesday that the Royals had offered free-agent first baseman Eric Hosmer a seven-year, $147 million deal."

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"Royals owner David Glass denied a request from the Braves to interview GM Dayton Moore for Atlanta’s own top front office position, ESPN."

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"Royals general manager Dayton Moore said that the White House restricted the number of employees who could attend, and that ownership and the team's decision-makers established a policy to determine who would be eligible for the trip."

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"“The core group has grown up together in the minor leagues, and they’ve wanted to do something special here in Kansas City for a long time,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said."

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"At the time, Kansas City general manager Dayton Moore told Dick Kaegel of MLB."

• Former Royals pitcher Octavio Dotel dies at age 51
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• Royals extend contract for J.J. Picollo and pick up 2026 option on Matt Quatraro
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2025
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• The best international signings in Royals history
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• Please welcome new writer Jared Perkins
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• Royals Review Roundtable: The Hot Stove season will soon begin

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images We ask our writers about what they expect this off-season. The Royals’ season is over, and once the World Series concludes, the off-season will begin. Before the wheeling and dealing begins, we assembled our writers to discuss the season that was and look forward for what could be an exciting Hot Stove season. The 2024 season saw the ...2024
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• Frustration and change give way to October, at last

Pinch me, I’m dreaming. It took 3,253 days for the Kansas City Royals to find redemption. That’s how many days we’ve seen since the Royals won the World Series on November 1, 2015. In the eight seasons following the team’s victory over New York, the win-loss record finished at 499-695. From 2016 through 2023, the team saw three Managers, two General Managers, and two team Owners. Long-time owner, ...2024
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?

Exclusive imaging of the White Sox analytics department. Other turnarounds don’t suggest it As the season creeps forward to the magical question, “To be 120+ or not to be 120+?” it behooves us to consider other teams that have recently been in dire straits ... though, of course, not necessarily quite as dire. There are four teams to examine that represent a relatively quick turnaround, ea...2024
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• The best international signings in Royals history
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for October 5, 2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 30, 2024
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2019 draft class, five years later
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
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• The Royals front office and coaching staff are killing it right now

General manager J.J. Picollo of the Kansas City Royals watches manager Matt Quatraro during a press conference at Kauffman Stadium on November 03, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Credit where credit is due! When principal owner John Sherman cut ties with baseball operations head Dayton Moore at the end of the 2022 season, he had a choice: bring in some outsi...2024
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• The Royals have a hitting problem

Hunter Renfroe #16 of the Kansas City Royals in action against the New York Mets during the eighth inning at Citi Field on April 14, 2024 in New York City. The Mets won 2-1. | Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images The pitching scouting has resulted in a number of terrific wins over the past couple of years, but the offense still lags behind. Before last night’s game, the Royals were 19-13, sec...2024
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• Who is John Sherman?
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• 2024 Royals season preview: It’s time to win

Photo by Omar Rawlings/Getty Images The Royals want to win on the field and at the ballot box Royals fans have seen their fair share of rebuild movements. Sometimes they pan out, like when they “flipped the switch” in 2011 with Salvador Perez, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, Alcides Escobar, and Lorenzo Cain, the group that went on to win two pennants and a championship. But more often than n...2024
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• Frustration and change give way to October, at last
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 30, 2024
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• Reactions to the Royals’ 2024 draft class
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for June 29, 2024

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images John Schuerholz is a Royals Hall of Famer. Sam McDowell writes about how the Royals need to play offense. They have to make the most out of the offense they do have right now, and making the most out of this funk looks something like Thursday. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure. “We’re not going to hit the ball out of the yard every time,” shortstop Bobby Witt...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
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• Friends in low places

Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images Headin’ to the Oasis Have you ever started reading about something and it led you into a rabbit hole of information? This happened to me recently and I dropped into a hole much deeper than I imagined possible. My daughter and I were at a hockey game a week ago, watching our local juniors team, the Waterloo Blackhawks. Baseball has always been my first spo...2024
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• Who is John Sherman?
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• Marsh over Lyles shows a promising direction for the club

Alec Marsh #48 of the Kansas City Royals poses for a portrait during photo day at Surprise Stadium on February 22, 2024 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images It’s the right move! I’m not generally one to get worked up about Opening Day rosters. Yes, it’s a nice honor to make that squad and suit up for the first game of the year. But consider: last year, 58 people...2024
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• Back to the Future in the AL as Kansas City Royals Keep Their Pennant
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• Jonny Gomes is crushed that Royals aren't inviting him to the White House
The Royals did not invite Jonny Gomes for their visit to the White House on Thursday. And Gomes, who makes no secret of his patriotism, is crushed. "I've been sent down. I've been non-tendered, whatever," Gomes said. "But this is probably the worst news of my professional baseball career." Gomes, though, is hardly the only person affiliated with last year's Royals who will be excluded from the tea...2016
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• Billy Butler to Sign with Athletics: Latest Contract Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Starling gaining steam after solid AFL season
Outfielder Bubba Starling, the fifth overall pick of the 2011 Draft and considered a disappointment until recently, keeps inching closer to the big leagues. Starling, the Royals' No. 5 prospect, recently completed a solid season in the Arizona Fall League, posting a .759 OPS with four homers and 10 RBIs to go along with his defense that general manager Dayton Moore has described as "Major League r...2015
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• Unlikely Star Chris Young Overcomes Heartache, Prepares for First Series Start
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• Royals reportedly offer Hosmer 7-year deal
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• Ring ceremony culmination of Royals' crown
This was the ceremony the Royals truly couldn't wait for -- the handing out of their 2015 World Series championship rings. The ceremony started about 40 minutes prior to Tuesday afternoon's series finale against the Mets, and one by one, from owner David Glass to general manager Dayton Moore to manager Ned Yost and the players, all received their rings to tremendous ovations....2016
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• Shuffle, Shuffle, World Series Title: Kansas City Royals Deliver Run for Ages
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• These Royals are unlucky AND awful
William Purnell-USA TODAY Sports But that might be good news for Royals fans As has been noted multiple times by multiple people over the past week, the Royals have played exactly one team under .500 so far this season. That was the lone series they managed to win, defeating the San Francisco Giants two games to one. There has also been all kinds of talk about how several Royals batters ha...2023
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: World Series Pressure Has Dodgers Hunting Blockbuster
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• Royals extend contract for J.J. Picollo and pick up 2026 option on Matt Quatraro
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The White Sox

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Here we are now going to the south side. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, and Orioles. Today we look at the history of deals with the Chicago White Sox. Total number of Royals/White Sox trades: 19 Dayton Moore dealt with the Whi...2024
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• Cedric Tallis belongs in the Royals Hall of Fame

Time to right a wrong Last year I made a vow to write an annual story about why the Royals’ first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, should be in the Royals Hall of Fame. Like it or not, it’s that time of year. Many of us have speculated as to why Tallis has been snubbed. His credentials are far too impressive for just a plain oversight, so there must be another underlying reason. The most common the...2024
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• After a season this bad, the front office still needs shaking up

Nov 3, 2022; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals general manager J.J. Picollo talks with media during a press conference at Kauffman Stadium. | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports No new talent in the front office is bad news There were a lot of things about the 2013-2015 Kansas City Royals that were wonderful. Yes, there was the American League Pennant, the World Series Championsh...2023
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Of Hot Red Sox, Cologne, Clubhouse Fights, Dog Days
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• World Series 2015: Top Moments, Highlights and Storylines from Mets vs. Royals
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: World Series Pressure Has Dodgers Hunting Blockbuster
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